Trail map
Published by Sun Peaks Resort LLP; this copy via Sun Peaks Resort LLP. The current official map is at Sun Peaks Resort LLP.
Routable 3D map
The whole lift and piste network of Sun Peaks is routable in the app: difficulty limits, live lift and piste status, alternative ways to the same place, and a 3D view of the terrain.
Open in SkiAllDayThe verdict
Sun Peaks is Canada's second-largest ski area by acreage after Whistler Blackcomb: 4,400 acres and 144 trails across three lift-linked mountains, Tod, Sundance and Mt. Morrisey, above a ski-in/ski-out village that is itself a municipality. The operator splits the terrain 10% novice, 58% intermediate and 32% advanced and expert. Vertical is modest for that footprint, about 882 m from the lower base to the Burfield chairlift's summit. Sun Peaks Resort LLP, a Nippon Cable subsidiary independent of Alterra, joined the Ikon Pass as a partner resort for 2022/23.1234
Goes well for
- Confident intermediate cruisers: 58% of the marketed terrain is graded intermediate, the largest single share of any of the three bands, spread across three connected mountains rather than one crowded hill.
- Skiers who want a big-name pass without a big-name crowd: the operator's own site markets Sun Peaks as "known for its wide range of terrain and uncrowded slopes," and it sits well off the Vancouver day-trip radius that packs Whistler.
- A downhill trip that can add cross-country: 37 km of groomed, trackset Nordic trail plus 19 km of backcountry track, mostly on Mt. Morrisey, comes free with a full- or half-day alpine ticket.
Goes badly for
- Budget skiers: the operator sells no fixed window rate at all, only date-based dynamic pricing with up to 40% off for booking ahead; skiresort.com's cross-check lists a peak adult day ticket at C$199, and even the discounted online range runs C$119-139.
- Skiers chasing steep, technical terrain: only 32% of the marketed acreage is graded advanced or expert, and the resort's own split leans harder toward cruising (58% intermediate) than its size and Ikon-partner billing might suggest.
- Travellers without a car or a flexible schedule: there is no passenger rail, Vancouver is a 409 km, roughly 4.5-hour drive away, and the closer Kamloops Airport is a 61 km transfer served mainly by connections through Vancouver or Calgary.
Key facts
Every card opens. The headline number is the answer; underneath is how it was measured and where it came from.
Elevation 882m vertical · 1,198–2,080 m
| Village | 1,255 m1 |
|---|---|
| Lowest piste | 1,198 m1 |
| Highest lift-served point | 2,080 m1 |
| Vertical drop | 882 m |
The operator's own trail-maps-and-stats page lists the Burfield chairlift's base at 1,198 m and its summit at 2,080 m, the highest lift-served point in the ski area. It separately names Mt. Tod's true summit at 2,152 m, explicitly marked "outside of ski area boundary", and uses that peak rather than the Burfield summit to compute the "skiable vertical" figure it publishes: 896 m, measured from the 1,255 m village base rather than the 1,198 m Burfield base. This page follows the convention used across this site of citing the highest lift-served point rather than a hike-to summit, so top_m is the Burfield summit and base_m is the lowest lift-served point at the Burfield base, giving a derived vertical of 882 m. Skiresort.com's independent figures (1,198 m to 2,082 m, an 884 m vertical) agree closely. Both the operator's 896 m and this page's 882 m describe the same modest drop for a 4,400-acre area; neither should be read as a discrepancy so much as a different choice of top and bottom reference points.
Pistes 135km 175.3 km measured from the network
- Easy 13.5km 10%
- Intermediate 78km 58%
- Difficult 43.5km 32%
Marketed vs measuredSun Peaks, like most North American resorts, markets its size in acres and trail count rather than piste kilometres: 4,400 acres of terrain across 144 trails including 16 gladed areas, split 10% novice, 58% intermediate and 32% advanced and expert by the operator's own count. Skiresort.com converts that network to an estimated 135 km, split 13.5/78/43.5 km, the same 10/58/32 percentage split as the operator's own figures. Our own measurement of the OpenStreetMap network finds 175.3 km, about 30% above skiresort.com's figure -- unusual, since most resorts on this site measure below their marketed total rather than above it. Sun Peaks maps a very large number of named glade lines and connector routes as separate ways in OpenStreetMap, which likely accounts for most of the gap. These figures, like the piste, lift and gradient numbers throughout this page, cover the downhill (alpine) network only; Sun Peaks' separate 37 km of groomed Nordic trail and 19 km of backcountry track, concentrated on Mt. Morrisey, are not included in any total on this page.
Lifts 13 3 types in the fleet
- Surface lift 5
- Fixed-grip quad 4
- High-speed quad 4
The operator counts 13 lifts: 4 high-speed detachable quads (Sunburst, Sundance, Morrisey and West Bowl Express), 4 fixed-grip quads (Burfield, Crystal, Elevation and Orient) and 5 surface lifts, for a stated capacity of 15,800 riders an hour. Wikipedia's infobox describes the Burfield chair as the longest fixed-grip quad chairlift in North America; it replaced the original 1961 diesel-powered chair that held the same distinction when the area first opened as Tod Mountain.1
Season November – April winter season
| Winter season | late November – early April |
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| Lift hours |
Day pass CAD 199 adult, main season
| Adult | CAD 1993 |
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| Youth | CAD — |
| Child | CAD — |
| Multi-resort passes | Ikon Pass: 7 days at Sun Peaks with no blackout dates for 2026/27. Ikon Base Pass: 5 days at Sun Peaks, blacked out 26-30 December 2026, 16-17 January 2027 and 13-14 February 2027. Mountain Collective: included, per the operator's own tickets-and-passes menu. |
Sun Peaks prices alpine day tickets dynamically by date, with the operator's own ticket page publishing no single fixed adult rate: buying online in advance saves up to 40% off the full-price rate charged to anyone who buys at the window on the day. Skiresort.com's cross-check lists a main-season adult day ticket at C$199; other retailers advertising the same online-advance-purchase system quote a C$119-139 range for the discounted online tiers. None of these numbers should be read as a single current price - the actual figure is whatever the booking engine returns for a given date.
Nearest airport 61 km, about 54 minutes by road; served by shuttle operators including Sun Star Shuttle Kamloops Airport (YKA)
| Kamloops Airport (YKA) | 61 km, about 54 minutes by road; served by shuttle operators including Sun Star Shuttle by car/shuttle |
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| Vancouver International Airport (YVR) | about 409 km, 4.5-5 hours by road or connecting shuttle by car/shuttle |
From Vancouver, Highway 5 (the Coquihalla) to Kamloops, then Highway 5 north and Sun Peaks Road to the village: about 409 km and roughly 4.5 hours in good conditions. There is no direct passenger rail to Sun Peaks or Kamloops.
The mountain
These figures come from measuring the resort's actual piste and lift network rather than from its brochure. Measured from the SkiAllDay routing graph on 9 September 2026. Where the resort publishes a figure of its own, that figure is the one shown.
Piste km per lift km
6.30
Piste km opened by each kilometre of lift line. It measures how sparse the lift network is, not how good it is: a high figure means long runs off few lifts, so more skiing between rides but more traversing and more people funnelled onto each lift; a low one means dense lift service, quick laps and short waits, at the cost of repeating the same runs.
measuredLift minutes per ski hour
17 min
Time riding up for every hour spent descending, from the graph’s own traversal times.
measuredLongest continuous descent
8.2 km
The longest run of linked pistes that never rides a lift.
measuredReachable on easy runs only
22%
Share of piste a skier can reach from the base without ever descending something harder than an easy run.
measuredNorth-facing terrain
27%
Piste facing N, NE or NW, from the bearing of each descent. Shaded aspects hold snow longest.
measuredVertical on that descent
949 m
measuredUphill on surface lifts
3%
Share of climbing served by drag lifts and platters, weighted by vertical rather than by lift count.
measuredPiste above 2,500 m
0%
measuredMedian piste altitude
1,606 m
Half the piste length lies above this height and half below, weighted by length.
measuredSkiers per piste km
80
At full lift capacity — a ceiling for comparing resorts, not a forecast of your day. Derived from uphill capacity, lift ride times and the split between riding and descending.
measuredAverage lift capacity
2,071/h
People per hour, averaged across lifts. High can mean short queues, or a lot of people arriving on the same runs.
measuredMean piste gradient
21%
Length-weighted across every piste. Comparable between countries in a way that piste colour is not.
measuredPiste measured
175.3 km
measuredLift length measured
27.8 km
measuredHow steep is it, really
Piste colour is set by each resort under its own rules, so a red in one country is a blue in another. Measured gradient is comparable everywhere.
- 18% 0–10%
- 32% 10–20%
- 27% 20–30%
- 15% 30–40%
- 8% 40%+
Guide
One lift ticket covers three named mountains built up in stages since 1961: Tod Mountain, the original and highest area; Sundance, the mid-elevation terrain closest to the village; and Mt. Morrisey, added in 2002 on the resort's eastern side.
Three mountains, one ticket
Tod Mountain carries the resort's highest lift-served terrain, reached by the Burfield and Crystal chairs and the West Bowl Express, and its two alpine bowls above the treeline. Sundance, served by the Sunburst and Sundance Express quads, sits at a lower elevation band close to the village and carries much of the intermediate and beginner terrain. Mt. Morrisey, the 2002 addition, is a separate peak to the east served by its own Morrisey Express quad; it is linked back to the rest of the resort by the Orient chairlift, which runs to a point just above the East Village Ski Way connector trail.51
A cruiser's mountain more than a steep one
The operator's own split, 10% novice, 58% intermediate and 32% advanced and expert, makes Sun Peaks a heavily intermediate-weighted area for its size; skiresort.com's independent measurement of 13.5/78/43.5 km lands on the same percentages. The steepest marked terrain sits at altitude: Gil's, a glade zone on the Mt. Tod side near the Burfield summit (signed on the operator's own trail map as "Top of the World", 2,080 m), and West Morrisey on the opposite side of the resort. Roughly 500 acres were added across both zones in 2014, pushing the resort past 4,270 acres and into its current second-place ranking among Canadian ski areas.165
Downhill and Nordic are separate networks
Sun Peaks' 37 km of groomed, trackset cross-country trail and a further 19 km of backcountry track sit mostly on Mt. Morrisey, apart from the alpine lift network this page otherwise describes. A full- or half-day alpine lift ticket includes same-day Nordic access, but none of the piste, lift or gradient figures on this page include the Nordic network.1
What our own measurement finds
Our routing measurement of the OpenStreetMap network puts Sun Peaks at 175.3 km of piste and 27.8 km of lift line, a single connected component with no fragments -- the whole area skis as one network, not a set of separate sectors on one ticket. The longest continuous descent it finds, 8.2 km dropping 949 m, closely matches the operator's own marketed "up to 8 km" longest run. The network's length-weighted average gradient is a gentle 21%, and only 27% of piste faces north, northeast or northwest, a modest share for holding late-season snow. Just 22% of the network is reachable from the base without descending something harder than an easy run, despite the operator's own 10% novice grading -- the easy terrain here is real but compact rather than widely spread.4
| Skier | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Confident intermediate | excellent | 58% of the operator's own terrain split is intermediate, the largest of the three bands, spread across Sundance and the lower halves of Tod and Morrisey.13 |
| Family with mixed abilities | good | A dedicated children's centre, a ski-in/ski-out village that is itself a municipality, and terrain spread gently enough across three mountains that a family can split up and regroup easily.1 |
| First-timer | fair | Only 10% of the marketed terrain is graded novice, concentrated on the lower Sundance slopes near the village; the Sundance Kids Centre and beginner programs are real, but this is not a resort with an enormous dedicated learning zone.1 |
| Advanced or expert skier | fair | 32% of the marketed acreage is advanced or expert, real terrain in the West Bowl, Gil's and West Morrisey, but a smaller share of the mountain than Sun Peaks' size and Ikon-partner status might suggest to someone expecting a steep, technical proving ground.1 |
| Budget skier | poor | The operator publishes no fixed window rate at all; skiresort.com's cross-check lists a C$199 peak adult day ticket, and getting to a resort 409 km from Vancouver with no passenger rail adds real travel cost on top of the lift ticket.3 |
By car
From Vancouver, Highway 5 (the Coquihalla) to Kamloops, then Highway 5 north and Sun Peaks Road to the village: about 409 km and roughly 4.5 hours in good conditions. There is no direct passenger rail to Sun Peaks or Kamloops.
By train
Where to base yourself
| Sun Peaks Village | Ski-in/ski-out at the base of all three mountains; incorporated as its own Mountain Resort Municipality in 2010 |
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| Kamloops 61 km | Nearest city and airport, on Highway 5 |
| Vancouver 409 km | Main international gateway and BC's largest city |
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Sunburst Bar + Eatery
The resort's only true on-mountain breakfast and lunch stop, at mid-mountain with views over the Headwalls run; known for cinnamon buns baked fresh daily.7
What skiers say
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Treat Christmas through New Year as Sun Peaks' only dependable crowd window, and expect the short queues mainly at the village-base lifts.89
An r/skiing thread in March 2025 put base-lift waits at up to roughly 15 minutes during that week and ski-on access for much of the rest of the season; a snowHeads thread on Sun Peaks at Christmas and New Year found the longest wait was about 10 minutes after fresh snow.
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If Sunburst and Sundance are busy at the village, upload once and spend the rush lapping the upper mountain or move across to Morrisey.10
An r/Kamloops thread in January 2023 recommends this escape because Sun Peaks disperses people quickly, and reported even Sundays as mostly ski-on or two-to-five-minute waits.
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Do not plan full-length Burfield laps unless the lower terrain is skiing exceptionally well; use its midstation, Crystal or West Bowl to preserve ski time.111213
A February 2006 trip report on the Liftlines forum measured the Burfield ride at roughly 22 minutes, and r/skiing threads from March 2023 and October 2022 report that the lower runs rarely justify the slow return; one visitor lost about an hour between a 30-minute queue and the chair ride.
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Avoid committing to West Bowl near a hard meeting or departure time if its lift is having mechanical trouble.8
An r/skiing thread in March 2025 describes a West Bowl failure that trapped that pod's skiers and funnelled them to Burfield, producing a 45-minute Burfield queue while every other lift had been ski-on.
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Use the free day-skier parking, but arrive early on powder weekends or other busy days when those lots can fill.1415
An r/britishcolumbia thread in January 2025 says parking is normally abundant and requires no active ski pass, with powder weekends the notable exception; r/Kamloops commuters warned the same month that some days fill early.
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For a fast, warm start away from the village, park at the small upper Burfield-base lot beside its warming hut.16
A snowHeads trip report on Sun Peaks found this quicker than driving into the resort and appreciated gearing up inside at about -20C, although the first upload is then the slow Burfield chair.
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If choosing cheaper lodging in Kamloops, budget about 50 minutes each way rather than treating Sun Peaks as a quick suburban commute.1517
An r/Kamloops thread in January 2025 put the drive at about 50 minutes each way, and snowHeads contributors note that village accommodation can be roughly 50 metres from the main lifts, so the premium materially improves first-chair access and removes the daily winter drive.
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Check DriveBC before leaving, especially for the Coquihalla and the single access stretch between Heffley Creek and the resort.1316
An r/skiing thread in October 2022 describes a driver diverting to Highway 1 when the Coquihalla was snow-covered, adding about 90 minutes, and a snowHeads trip report describes an accident on the resort road closing it until roughly 20:00.
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For a family-sized midweek airport arrival, compare a private van that waits during a Kamloops grocery stop with buying individual shuttle seats.1819
A group of four on the Sun Peaks Tripadvisor forum found the charter arithmetic competitive and used the stop to provision before climbing to the village; the fares quoted there are historical, so get current quotes before booking.
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On a powder day, use West Bowl primarily as the gateway to Gil's and continue farther in if the obvious entrances are tracked.82021
An r/skiing thread in March 2025 reported Gil's still fresh two days after a storm and lightly trafficked, while r/snowboarding threads from January 2025 and September 2020 describe it variously as wide flowing glades and unexpectedly tight trees; allow roughly 10 to 25 minutes of bootpacking depending on how far in you go.
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For efficient upper-mountain powder laps, ride Burfield from its midstation and search Juniper Ridge around Sunnyside, Kookamungus and Toilet Bowl, or move to Green Door off Crystal.22
The snowHeads 'Sun Peaks 2017-18' conditions thread identified those specific lines as the most reliable upper-Burfield and Crystal stashes after a dry spell.
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On Morrisey, use Mid-Life Crisis and the other wide blues for cruising, then seek Tumble Dry and In Tatters for sustained advanced tree skiing when coverage is good.2220
The snowHeads 'Sun Peaks 2017-18' thread and an r/snowboarding thread from January 2025 both describe the north-facing West Morrisey steeps as holding powder later, and the pod as quiet enough for rapid laps; Static Cling, Spin Cycle and Cover Shot are further bump-oriented choices.
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Use The Sticks on Morrisey for spacious, low-consequence glade practice without the traffic found near the main base.2324
An r/skiing green-runs cheat sheet posted in March 2026 called it the resort's standout green because its broad, branching lanes gave a tree-skiing feel, and contributors to the Sun Peaks Tripadvisor forum likewise found that side of Morrisey nearly empty.
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If the generally mellow trail ratings leave you wanting a real test, target Challenger on lower Burfield and the Headwalls rather than random black groomers.1125
A February 2006 Liftlines trip report singled out Challenger as the hardest terrain on lower Burfield, and an r/skiing thread in February 2024 noted the Headwalls are steep enough to host speed-skiing events; both carry the slow Burfield return penalty.
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For groomer mileage and side hits, lap Sunburst and Sundance and include 5 Mile as a genuine carving run rather than dismissing it as a beginner trail.2023
An r/snowboarding thread in January 2025 praised the width and sustained carving on 5 Mile, and the r/skiing green-runs cheat sheet from March 2026 describes the central chairs as the resort's core for long pistes with glades and hits between the runs.
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Do the main self-catering shop in Kamloops and treat Bluebird Market as a top-up convenience store rather than a full supermarket.261827
r/skiing threads from October 2021 and July 2023 report limited choice and high prices in the village, while the Sun Peaks Tripadvisor forum rates Bluebird strongest for packaged essentials and weak for meat, fruit and vegetables.
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For a quick inexpensive lunch, walk from the lifts to Chez Joe Poutine, or use Vertical Café for breakfast sandwiches and a lighter option.28
An r/Ikonpass thread in March 2023 measured the village detour at roughly 100 steps from the lifts and rated Chez Joe the favourite cheap lunch of the trip.
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At Bottoms, put your name down before another lap and wait for the text instead of surrendering an hour of skiing to the lunch queue.28
The same r/Ikonpass thread from March 2023 reports waits of around an hour at busy times; Cahilty Creek was immediate for an early lunch but had a queue by the time those diners finished.
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Reserve Powder Hounds for a worthwhile expensive dinner or book Oya in advance when Japanese food is the priority.2820
Powder Hounds was the favourite splurge in that r/Ikonpass thread from March 2023, while an r/snowboarding group in January 2025 rated Oya exceptionally highly but warned that advance booking was necessary.
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Skip The Annex for lunch and use Vertical, Bolacco or a slice from Mountain High Pizza; choose Masa's only when you can tolerate a longer wait.17
Several contributors to the snowHeads thread 'Sunpeaks Canada. Any good?' independently criticised The Annex while reporting substantially better food at the named alternatives.
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Do not trust the trail map's apparent Fairways Ski-Back connection to Burfield Return after skiing West Morrisey.29
An r/skiing thread in October 2025 explains that Burfield Return is readily reached only from the bottom of Tumble Dry; from Fairways there is a significant, often unmaintained uphill section, then a road crossing where skis have to come off.
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Enter Gil's and West Bowl with a clear boundary-and-return plan rather than assuming their inbounds status makes navigation foolproof.2916
That same r/skiing thread from October 2025 reports a skier accidentally leaving the boundary in Gil's, and a snowHeads trip report notes multiple West Bowl rescues plus confusing signage; ask patrol or a local before committing in poor visibility.
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Do not save 5 Mile for exhausted beginners just because it is green.23
It is exceptionally long, steeper and narrower near the top, and has flat sections where speed must be carried; the author of the r/skiing green-runs cheat sheet in March 2026 needed several rest stops despite having travelled specifically to ski it.
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Do not book East Village expecting a second restaurant-and-shop village at the Morrisey base.8
An r/skiing thread in March 2025 describes East Village as housing with essentially no village infrastructure, and Orient as a slow but useful connector back toward the main village.
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For beginners attending ski school, avoid accommodation near Burfield merely because it is advertised as ski-in/ski-out.30
The central village is small and walkable to the lesson meeting area, but contributors to the snowHeads thread 'Help with condo sun peaks' flag Burfield-area lodging as the inconvenient exception.
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Nervous beginners should avoid Home Run despite its green rating and choose a broader descent such as Homesteader into 5 Mile.23
Home Run is a narrow cross-mountain cat track intersecting several blue runs, creating uncomfortable crossing traffic, whereas Homesteader begins gently before feeding the broad lower 5 Mile.
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On freeze-thaw days, let Sundance soften in the sun, move to north-facing Morrisey when the main side remains icy, and leave lower Burfield before it becomes heavy.3111
An r/snowboarding thread in April 2025 recommended Sundance in softening conditions and Morrisey on an icy day; the February 2006 Liftlines trip report found the south-facing lower Burfield snow noticeably heavier around noon.
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In early season, lap mid-Burfield, Crystal and Elevation until lower Burfield and West Morrisey have genuinely filled in.21
An r/snowboarding thread in September 2020 explains that the lower zones open later because of large drainage ditches, lower elevation and greater sun exposure, and that inadequately covered tree runs become deadfall-heavy bushwhacking.
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When cloud and crosswind obscure Top of the World or West Bowl, retreat to the lower, tree-lined terrain on Morrisey or Sundance.161132
A snowHeads trip report and the February 2006 Liftlines report both describe minimal visual reference and highly variable wind-affected snow in the alpine, while an r/skiing thread in September 2025 notes that Sun Peaks' lower terrain can stay below the cloud band.
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Without fresh snow, treat West Bowl as a Gil's access lift and spend the day on groomers or sheltered trees instead of repeatedly skiing its short open runs.3320
An r/skiing thread from December 2021 calls West Bowl windblown and undifferentiated in dry weather, and an r/snowboarding thread in January 2025 found it the poorest-conditioned pod, with Crystal Bowl similarly bland without good snow.
History
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1958
Donald Whyte and Donald Munro identify Tod Mountain as a ski development site.5
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1961
Tod Mountain Ski Resort opens on 18 November with a diesel-powered chairlift then described as the longest in North America; it becomes the Burfield chair.345
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1972
The Shuswap chairlift opens, extending the lift network eastward and establishing the base area that becomes the village and main lift centre.5
- 1992
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1993
The resort is renamed Sun Peaks and operated under Sun Peaks Resort LLP; a master development plan begins roughly $12 million of investment in the village.345
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2002
The ski area expands onto Mt. Morrisey, its third named mountain.345
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2010
Sun Peaks incorporates as a Mountain Resort Municipality, the first of its kind under British Columbia's Local Government Act.35
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2014
Roughly 500 acres are added through the West Morrisey and Gil's alpine zones, bringing the ski area to 4,270 acres and making Sun Peaks the second-largest ski area in Canada by acreage.51
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2022
Sun Peaks joins the Ikon Pass as a partner resort for the 2022/23 season, announced 4 October 2022.36
Nearby and comparable
- Whistler Blackcomb
Canada's largest ski area by acreage (8,171 acres) and far busier; a short flight or long drive from Vancouver against Sun Peaks' Interior BC setting.
- Big White
Another Interior BC area near Kelowna, smaller than Sun Peaks but known for cold, dry powder and a similarly ski-in/ski-out village.
- Revelstoke
The biggest lift-served vertical in North America, a more expert-oriented mountain than Sun Peaks' cruiser-heavy terrain split.
- Silver Star
A smaller Interior BC area near Vernon, with a similarly colourful, car-free village core.
Questions
Is Sun Peaks really the second-largest ski area in Canada?
Yes, by skiable acreage. The operator markets 4,400 acres across three lift-linked mountains, and Whistler Blackcomb's 8,171 acres is the only Canadian ski area larger; Sun Peaks reached its current size in 2014 when roughly 500 acres were added through the West Morrisey and Gil's expansions.15
How do the three mountains at Sun Peaks connect?
Tod Mountain, Sundance and Mt. Morrisey share one lift ticket and are linked by chairlifts and connector trails rather than one continuous piste. Sundance and Tod sit close together near the village; Mt. Morrisey, added in 2002, is a separate peak to the east reached by its own Morrisey Express quad and tied back into the rest of the resort by the Orient chairlift and the East Village Ski Way trail.51
Who owns and operates Sun Peaks, and is it on the Ikon Pass?
Sun Peaks Resort LLP, a wholly owned Canadian subsidiary of Nippon Cable Co. of Japan, operates the resort independently of Alterra Mountain Company. Sun Peaks joined the Ikon Pass as a partner resort for the 2022/23 season: the full Ikon Pass includes 7 days with no blackout dates, and the Ikon Base Pass includes 5 days with a handful of blackout dates.23637
How do you get to Sun Peaks, and how far is it from Vancouver?
Sun Peaks has no passenger rail or on-site airport. The nearest airport, Kamloops (YKA), is a 61 km, roughly 54-minute drive or shuttle ride away. Vancouver is about 409 km and 4.5 hours by road via the Coquihalla Highway, or a connecting flight into Kamloops.1
Is Sun Peaks good for beginners and families?
It has real but limited beginner terrain: only 10% of the marketed acreage is graded novice, concentrated on the lower Sundance slopes near the village, backed by the Sundance Kids Centre and a ski-in/ski-out village. Families with mixed abilities are well served because the three mountains let a group split up and regroup easily, but a first-timer will find less easy terrain here than the resort's overall size might suggest.1
Does Sun Peaks have cross-country (Nordic) skiing?
Yes, a substantial network separate from the alpine lifts: 37 km of groomed, trackset trail plus 19 km of backcountry track, mostly on Mt. Morrisey. A full- or half-day alpine lift ticket includes same-day Nordic trail access, but none of this page's piste, lift or gradient figures include the Nordic network.1
What does a day lift ticket at Sun Peaks cost?
There is no fixed price: Sun Peaks uses date-based dynamic pricing, with the operator advertising up to 40% off for booking online in advance over the full price charged at the window on the day. Skiresort.com's cross-check lists a C$199 peak adult day ticket, while other retailers advertise discounted online tiers in the C$119-139 range; the actual figure depends on the date booked.3
References
Every claim on this page carries a numbered marker linking here, and every reference links back to the passages that used it. Numbers not yet checked against a source are marked like this.
- 1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Trail Maps & Stats
- 2. ^ a b c Corporate Info
- 3. ^ a b c d e f Sun Peaks ski resort test report
- 4. ^ a b SkiAllDay routing graph, computed from OpenStreetMap
- 5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Sun Peaks Resort
- 6. ^ Sun Peaks Alpine Trail Map, winter 2025/26
- 7. ^ Sunburst Bar + Eatery
- 8. ^ a b c d Sun Peaks - What's Changed Since 2011?
- 9. ^ Sun Peaks at Xmas New Year
- 10. ^ Best ski areas on a Sunday?
- 11. ^ a b c d Sun Peaks BC, Feb. 26-27, 2006
- 12. ^ Gil's (Sun Peaks, BC)
- 13. ^ a b Tips & tricks for visiting Sun Peaks in BC for the first time?
- 14. ^ Advice for snowshoeing in or around Sun Peaks and or Revelstoke.
- 15. ^ a b stay in Kamloops to ski in sun peaks
- 16. ^ a b c d TR: Sun Peaks BC
- 17. ^ a b Sunpeaks Canada. Any good?
- 18. ^ a b Transfer to Sun Peaks including grocery shop
- 19. ^ Transportation from Kamloops Airport to Sun Peaks
- 20. ^ a b c d e Any recent intel/tips for an upcoming Sun Peaks trip?
- 21. ^ a b Sun Peaks (BC) in Mid-December
- 22. ^ a b Sun Peaks 2017-18
- 23. ^ a b c d Sun Peaks Green Runs cheat sheet
- 24. ^ Sun Peaks reviews?
- 25. ^ North America's Most Iconic Ski Runs
- 26. ^ Sun peaks
- 27. ^ Help deciding between Banff, Sunpeaks or Whistler?
- 28. ^ a b c Sun Peaks Recs?
- 29. ^ a b Sun Peaks west morrissey trails - looking for info on ski out options
- 30. ^ Help with condo sun peaks
- 31. ^ Tips for Sun Peaks based on our Big White experience?
- 32. ^ Snow quality at Sun Peaks?
- 33. ^ My (super cluttered) Honest Sun Peaks Trail Map
- 34. ^ a b c d Sun Peaks Resort History
- 35. ^ It's Official: Sun Peaks Is B.C.'s Newest Municipality
- 36. ^ a b Ikon Pass Adds Sun Peaks For 2022-23
- 37. ^ Ikon Pass
Page last updated 9 September 2026.